José de Jesús Montaño López, Geneva Smith, Pasquale Toscano and Ryan Unger have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.The Jacobus Fellows will be honored at Alumni Day ceremo
The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, has been awarded to José de Jesús Montaño López, an engineeer using yeast to grow biofuels; Geneva Smith, a legal historian building the first archive of 'slave court' records; Pasquale Toscano, an English student analyzing epics through a disability lens; and Ryan Unger, a mathematician who disproved the third law of black hole thermodynamics.
Lila Rodgers, Mira Nencheva, Binyamin "Benny" Kleinman and Jason Molesky (from left, with Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley) have been named winners of the fellowship, awarded to one Ph.D. student in each division humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering whose work has exhibited the highest scholarly excellence.